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AF015 Abysme ‎– Acrid Life

With Acrid Life, Pittsburgh’s death metal power trio return after seven years of reclusive inactivity. After all this time Abysme reemerge with their sound completely unchanged to present 5 new tracks of cryptic and mid-paced death metal. Crushed in the grip of doom, or blasted apart and skewered by solos, every moment of Acrid Life evokes the grave and the dreadful fear thereof.

AF013 ATTRITION: Demo 1

After subsuming its previous incarnation, Atomic Grave, this one-maniac death unit raised the banner Attrition and discharged its first attack in the form of hand-dubbed cassettes. Available initially in only two runs of ludicrously limited copies, Attrition’s debut tape is a three-stage charred-black and total death strike that leaves nothing behind except a sick admiration for one’s conqueror.

Sacrificial Massacre’s sophomore album Sons of Tonatiuh - Huitzilopochti Made Flesh is an assault against all who dare approach it. The work of one who calls himself Tleyotlopochtli Mazacoatl, this album swallows you whole into a fully realized, densely layered dark inferno. Augmented by a humid and blood-soaked atmosphere, alive with a brutal heathenism that invokes chaos and cuts out the heart to move the skies, this is war metal in honor of those who fought with sinew and obsidian, gore-stained clubs and jaguar pelts.

AF010 PLAGUE PHALANX: INIQUITOUS EUGENICS

Hooded in black anonymity, these San Jose-based voidtroopers return to the year 2017 bearing seven new arms of annihilating blackdeath supremacy. Iniquitous Eugenics inflames the bestial impulses and invokes indiscriminate genocide with pestilential guitars, panzerblast drums, and warped vox like ghastly howls from the slaughterhouse drainpipes. Gluttons for Sect Pig, Goatpenis, and Crurifragium will relish this filth.

Limited to 200 copies includes download code. Terror repeats on both sides.

AF007 TAPHOS NOMOS / URÐUN: R.I.P. 12" LP

Available for the first time on vinyl, R.I.P. proves that all along there existed a tacit competition between Urðun and Taphos Nomos. An unspoken challenge to see which band could write the most brutal song. With Rarely Investigated Phenomena, Taphos Nomos show themselves to be more disciplined and laconic with their death metal, but all the gothic weirdness that you loved about West of Everything Lies Death is not only present, but refined and more creatively blended in. While Urðun simply just got better at ripping off heads. Their Rigorously Intensified Putrefaction sounds perfect on vinyl, that most arcane format, where the maddening depths of their morbidity are here best explored.

AF009 HELLFIRE DEATHCULT: Death Worship

A name that’s earned a reputation for consistency and devotion, Hellfire Deathcult—in only four years—have carved their niche with napalm, jackhammers, and an unflagging delivery of unholy warfare. Yet on Death Worship, their third release to date, Chicago’s hooded beasts somehow outdo themselves. Hear mutated wild boar vocals spew nuclear hate. Hear riffs like infernal winds of hell rupturing forth from the earth, chased with bat-winged tormentors and leather-clad eaters of carrion. Hear drums blasting and blasting like some desperate gunner unloading round after round in an attempt to take the goddamn thing down. More than Archgoat’s supporting act, Hellfire Deathcult have transcended their bestial bonds for something purer evil. Death Worship is six attacks (plus an intro) of unstoppable demonic violence against humanity.

AF008 MORIBUNDUS CHRISTUS: The Morbid Cult ep

The Morbid Cult is the debut offering from Moribundus Christus. Four spells of unholy and necrocophonous depredation to warp your mind and rape your soul. Fans of Orgy of Carrion, Satanize, Voltaic Omen, and similar methods of aural destruction will revel in Moribundus Christus’ relentless bestial assault. This is deep and real black metal, caustic to outsiders and pretenders. Moribundus Christus is grinding black metal filth. Recommended if you hate.

AF006 HELLFIRE DEATHCULT: Culto A La Muerte

First released intangibly upon touring stateside with Archgoat, Hellfire Deathcult’s Culto a la Muerte is a deadly scourge spreading rapidly throughout the underground. After a necessary six-month incubation period this noxious blend of pestilential torture is finally manifest in its physical consummation. Bearing nine curses of atmospheric and bestial cruelty cast against all life and sworn with the secret sign by a band rabid with vitriol and possessed by manifold evil.

A mandatory purchase for followers of Antediluvian, Teitanblood, and Genocide Shrines. This is Culto a la Muerte.

AF004 DEFECRATOR: Satanic Martyrdom 7"

Following up last year’s traumatizing Tales of Defecration demo, Northern California’s Defecrator now unleash their latest opus, Satanic Martyrdom, on 7” vinyl from Our Ancient Future Records. Judging by the hellish sounds captured on this recording, it’s evident that the trio spent the time between the demo and Satanic Martyrdom whetting their blades and antagonizing their sadistic urges.

With two new statements of confrontational blackened death chaos, Defecrator prove their volatility is matched only by their restraint, and their dedication to the production of profane aural devastation.

AF005 ABYSME: Strange Rites 12"

Originally released in 2012 on CD by Hellthrasher Productions, Strange Rites is the first and only full length by the Pittsburgh-based death metal trio known as Abysme. Formed in 2006 and comprised of ex-members of Funerus and Crucial Unit, Abysme practiced their cryptic metal of death for three years before making a permanent mark on the world of man with their now extinct demo tape. Three years later they emerged from the catacombs once more with Strange Rites.

Ten tracks of subterranean and eldritch death worship now available for the first time on vinyl only from Our Ancient Future Records.

AF003 Naturvidrig: Sönderfall

Sönderfall --translated as decay-- is the wretched and murderous debut EP from Naturvidrig, a black metal band originating from the Swedish countryside of provincial Värmland.

Recorded and produced by members Thomsen & Ataraktika during the sunless winter of 2015, it deals with the deterioration of mind, spirit and civilization. Naturvidrig is currently exploring their craft further for a possible future full-length.

AF001 Evil Army: EVIL ARMY S/T Out Now

Available now for the first time on cassette, the 2006 debut lp by EVIL ARMY. Produced by Jay Reatard, hyped by Phil Anselmo and blows away 95% of any speed or thrash metal ever released since.

"Not to be lumped in with the latest craze of crappy thrash polluting the underground. Features 13 tracks of demonic driven speed metal with a raw hardcore attitude. For fans of old SLAYER, D.R.I., old METALLICA ("Kill 'Em All" era)." This is the release that put EVIL ARMY at the front of the line for for thrash bands in the United States.